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Plot Summary:
Amateur 'chefs' from around the country compete for a million dollar prize in the ultimate food fight.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, culinary, exciting, feel good, entertaining, mockumentary
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Never Been Thawed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious mockumentary about the delicious hobby of frozen food collecting and Christian rock band, The Christers. The film follows the Mesa Frozen Entree Enthusiast's Club as they plan their first Frozen Entree Enthusiasts Convention.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, mockumentary, clever, offbeat, realistic, biting, suspense
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Operation Cupcake (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Army Colonel Griff Carson (Dean Cain) returns home from Germany on a two-month leave, he considers retiring if he doesn't get promoted to General. Being away on deployment has been hard on Griff, separating him from his wife Janet (Kristy Swanson) and two teenagers, Kim (Galadriel Stineman) and Ollie (Alec Gray).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Big Tease (1999)
Plot Summary:
Thinking he's competing in Los Angeles' hot Platinum Scissors contest, Scottish hairstylist Crawford (Craig Ferguson) leaves Glasgow with a film crew to capture the event. When he learns he's a mere audience member, Crawford must find a way to become the mane event. Abhorrent Norwegian Stig is his stiff-as-gel competition. Drew Carey and others make cameo appearances in this hysterical mockumentar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, clever, humorous, witty, talky, offbeat, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody
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The Flying Scissors (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy starring Mason Pettit, Matthew Arkin, Devin Ratray.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, mockumentary, offbeat, independent film
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As Needed (2018)
Plot Summary:
A 40-year-old world-famous chef with anger management issues is assigned to run a cooking class at a centre for young people with autism.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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40 Years Young (2022)
Plot Summary:
After turning 40, César is invited to a culinary contest in Cancún, but a bitter discovery threatens to destroy his family as well as his chances to win the competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Closing Escrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three quirky families seeking to buy their next home collide when trying to purchase the same property. The bidding war tests the limits of their marriages and the resolve of their agents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, cynical, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Stuntmen (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the industry's two biggest stuntmen are nominated for Stuntman of the Year, an over-ambitious documentarian reignites a dormant rivalry between the two men that results in an all out press war.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, humorous, semi serious, exciting, mockumentary
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Bagboy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A teenager enters the competitive world of grocery store bagging.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Night Club (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after taking a job there working the night shift to put themselves through USC.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Taco Shop (2018)
Plot Summary:
A taco shop's business is jeopardized when a gourmet taco truck parks across the street.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Opening Act (2020)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Will Chu whose true life passion is to become a stand-up comedian. He is given the opportunity to emcee a comedy show, opening for his hero, Billy G. Chu has to decide if he wants to continue the life he has set up or to pursue his dream, the life of a comedian.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, funny
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Punching Henry (2016)
Plot Summary:
Comedian Henry Phillips is lured to LA by a renowned TV producer who wants to bring his story of failure to the screen. But when a major network gets involved, Henry must decide whether he wants to make jokes for a living, or be the butt of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious, funny, cult classic
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The Mother of Invention (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mockumentary about an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning an annual young inventor award. The only problem is... he's never made an invention that works.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, cult classic
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Antiquities (2018)
Plot Summary:
After his father's death, a young man searches to find who his dad was only to stumble onto himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Nickelodeon's Ho Ho Holiday Special (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nickelodeon stars feature in vignettes and musical numbers about holiday custom's, all within a larger wrap-around story,.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Where's the Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Take the 10 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of two best friends, a drug dealer, and a store manager collide at a hip-hop concert in the Inland Empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, buddy comedy
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And the Winner Is... (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - The hypocrisy lurking behind politics and small-town life is revealed in this sharp, hilarious satire that finds Centerville shaking up its mayoral election by forcing the candidates to participate in an "Election Pageant." Seven eccentric, competitive locals run for office despite their many flaws, and during the pageant, show off their skills at baby kissing, photo ops, handshaking and other skills needed by a savvy politician. - Jerry Springer, Kevin McClatchy, Doug Kusak.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, realistic, mockumentary
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A Dash of Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former glory by presenting her new assistant's recipes as her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining
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The Move of the Penguin (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two precarious workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and convinced of their potential they plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Kitchen: World Chef Battle (2017)
Plot Summary:
Victor Barinov at the personal request of the Russian President will go to Sochi at the world championship for professional chefs and to prove that he and his team are the best in the world! The hard struggle for the title of winner of Operations will help "dark horse" - his own son Ivan, which he suddenly found out on the eve of the championship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, captivating, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle (2010)
Plot Summary:
"Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of kimchi. The Japanese Prime Minister makes the bold claim that kimchi is an original Japanese dish which sets off the Korean president. Upon the Korean's president return home he sets upon a globalization plan for kimchi, which includes a nationwide "Kimchi Contest". Then, a lady named Jang-eun (Kim Jung-Eun) and her step-brother Sung-Chan (Jin Goo) compete in the Kimchi dish contest, with both siblings using their mother's kimchi recipe.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Whites (2010)
Plot Summary:
Whites was a BBC sitcom, written by Oliver Lansley and Matt King, directed by David Kerr, and starring Alan Davies as the executive chef at a country house hotel. BBC Two gave the go ahead for the show to go into production in August 2009 with the first episode airing in September 2010. Whites aired for six episodes in 2010. On 1 March 2011 Davies announced that the BBC would not be renewing Whites for another series.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good, realistic
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The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
Plot Summary:
The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, while the loser will endure a beating at the hands of the champ.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, talky, feel good, not serious, witty, cult classic, hilarious, clever
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A Beer Tale (2012)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the care of their uncle, a well-meaning but less than ideal paternal figure. Raised on beer, with the assumption they're all grown up, Luke and Corey decide it's time to finish their family beer; a beer their parents started but were never able to finish twenty years ago. But when the idealistic Luke meets a girl whose family shows him the home life he's always wanted, he abandons Corey and their family beer in pursuit of this budding relationship. Corey, however, refuses to go down without a fight, and the ensuing mayhem that follows pits brother against brother and forces the Colorado wild boys to finally grow up and decide what kind of men they really want to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Just Desserts (2004)
Plot Summary:
Marco Poloni's family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help them. But he needs a partner, so her asks Grace Carpenter, the baker of restaurant, but unfortunately they started off on the wrong foot, but she agrees. So they go to the competition and things seem to be looking good except for a few complications. One of the other contestant Jacques du Jacques is Marco's former classmate at the Academy, whom he says betrayed him. Emil, one of the judges, is Marco's former instructor at the Academy whom he did not leave a good impression on. And Marco's temper. So will they be able to pull it off. And at the same time Marco finds himself attracted to her but she already has a boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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The Restaurant with Problems (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tamako works for a company in the restaurant business. She experiences betrayal from Makoto, a chef she recently hired. Rumors then spread at work about her. Tamako decides enough is enough and quits her job. She decides to open a restaurant and run it from a woman's perspective. Tamako soon learns that Makoto has opened a luxurious restaurant across the street from her modest restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Bottle Shock (2008)
Plot Summary:
Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out top-notch chardonnay. Determined to make a name for himself, he sets about getting the booze back to Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, factual, humorous, semi serious, culinary, hilarious, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Today's Special (2009)
Plot Summary:
Young Manhattan chef Samir rediscovers his heritage and passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, culinary, light, captivating, entertaining, hilarious, relaxing, sentimental, clever